rubbish-mountains

Updated: May 14, 2025

Silently, like a proud strong man, he girt himself to the Hercules task of removing rubbish-mountains, since that was it; of paying large ransoms by what he could still write and sell. In his declining years too; misfortune is doubly and trebly unfortunate that befalls us then.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III